Homestead Furniture Making Contest was a contest that was held from January 17, 2007, to January 20, 2007. Players were given the task of furnishing Roblox's new starter place, the Happy Home in Robloxia. It is noteworthy for being the first ever contest and event on Roblox.
Background[]
The contest was first announced by Shedletsky on the Roblox Blog on January 17, 2007. Submissions would be taken in via models through the forums along with a brief description of what the contestant had developed. All winning models would be published into the Toolbox under the newly created "Furniture" tab.[1]
Judging criteria[]
The contestants would receive points based on their creativity, construction, attention to detail, and scale. Contestants would be awarded additional points if they provided a brief description of how to publish a model in the contest's thread.[1]
Winners and Rewards[]
By January 18, 2007, eight users had submitted 38 models, with 30 of them being added into the Toolbox.[2]
By the deadline, nine players had been chosen as the grand prize winners of the contest with each of them being given a one-time customized avatar of their choice, each users submissions being pictured below.[1][3]
Middle row: Cadi (left), Koopa (middle), Anaminus (right)
Bottom row: miked (left), PoliceModlers (middle), MrDoomBringer (right)
Avatar Submissions[]
Some rules for submitting a Figure model were no invisible parts, no adding, removing, or resizing any parts, and no edits to the health bar.[3] Submissions were to be uploaded to the Model Library, and submitted to Shedletsky in direct messages. Most of these models, including earlier versions, can be found on the Roblox Library or in user inventories.
Despite the fact that the primary purpose of the avatars were to provide each winner with body colors and a classic t-shirt, miked and Cadi decided to add faces to their own avatars.[4][5] Miked submitted his avatar with 0.3 reflectance on it to give a golden effect. Miked accidentally submitted his Figure unlocked, and so people were able to use building tools to pull his character apart in-game.[6] Anaminus also accidentally left theirs unlocked in earlier iterations of their submission.[7] Miked's Figure submission also had secret backdoor scripts in the torso disguised as decals. It is unknown if the script even worked.[8]
Rocks25 would submit his avatar translucent.[9] [10] PoliceModlers would do something similar with the arms, and apply .2 reflectance to the head. He would also cover the head with an image on all sides.[11] Similarly to Miked and Cadi, ToaZuku and PoliceModlers decided to add images to the head. It also appears that Anaminus helped ToaZuku with creating their submission.[12]
Despite Cadi creating a model with just a custom face, Cadi's figure may had never been submitted. Most instances of the model did not contain a humanoid, and fell apart upon spawning in.[13] Upon asking a user who owned the Cadi account, they did not appear to have any messages sent to Shedletsky about the Figure submission.
Links to all known submissions, including earlier versions, can be found below:
DrWaffles:
Rocks25:
ToaZuku:
- ToaZuku's Submission
- Ninth Early Version (Uploaded by Anaminus)
- Eighth Early Version
- Seventh Early Version (Uploaded by Anaminus)
- Sixth Early Version (Uploaded by Anaminus)
- Fifth Early Version (Uploaded by Anaminus)
- Fourth Early Version
- Third Early Version
- Second Early Version (Chestplate was added)
- Early Version, notably without decals
Cadi:
Koopa:
Anaminus:
Miked:
- Miked's Submission
- Earlier Model (Claims to be locked)
- Earlier Version
- Even Earlier Version
- Earliest Version
PoliceModlers:
MrDoomBringer:
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
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miked's widescreen TV.
- When announcing the winners, Shedletsky said that his personal favorite winning model of the contest was miked’s widescreen TV which had a working remote that could surf 10 different channels with comedic Roblox stories.[3]
- The blog post announcing the contest contained the first ever mention of Happy Home in Robloxia.[1]
- Since winners were given the opportunity to customize their own avatars, this was considered unique as it was unattainable at the time.
- Miked originally had a model of a "black figure with white skeleton decals all over", but due to issues with images loading in multiplayer at the time, he decided to instead make his avatar a "24K golden robot" with the Superman logo ("S" replaced with an "M").[6]
- Miked also considered putting his face and shirt decals on the back of his model, so that it appeared he was walking backwards.[6]
- Most of the original Figure submissions that were accepted can be found in Are92's museum game or on the public Library.
- A leaked version of Are92's museum was found in free models in 2021, where the rest of the original avatar submissions were found. It can be verified to be real based on Miked's previous comment about his figure being unlocked, and other similar details.[14]
- A model of the found avatar submissions were reuploaded by Dynabroth/VoxelizedBits and can be obtained on the Library.[15]
- PoliceModlers also went by Jacobxxduel, and in modern day, Reverse_Polarity
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Shedletsky, John (2007, January 17). "Homestead Furniture Making Contest". From Roblox Blog. Accessed January 29, 2023. Archived from the original on August 19, 2022.
- ↑ Shedletsky, John (2007, January 18). "Homestead Contest Update". From Roblox Blog. Accessed February 1, 2023. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Shedletsky, John (2007, January 20). "This Old House". From Roblox Blog. Accessed February 1, 2023. Archived from the original on July 1, 2022.
- ↑ Semi-Frequent Roblox Facts [@Dynabroth] (2022, January 7). "With extensive searching, the original models were discovered, and the base64 of the old image assets were extracted and converted. So they do still exist! Here's Cadi's face, if you're curious." [Tweet]. Twitter.
- ↑ Semi-Frequent Roblox Facts [@Dynabroth] (2022, January 10). "Apologies for the late response, but I do! This is Miked's face, I assume you were talking about that." [Tweet]. Twitter.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 (2007, January 22). "This Old House (Comments)". From Roblox Blog. Archived from the original on January 15, 2025.
- ↑ https://www.roblox.com/library/29521/Anaminus
- ↑ (2007, January 21). "Miked2". From Roblox Library. Archived from the original on January 15, 2025.
- ↑ Semi-Frequent Roblox Facts [@Dynabroth] (2021, August 10). "rocks25 was one of the winners of the homestead building contest and got a custom avatar for it (like other winners had) and submitted his figure transparent. He would've appeared as the images below (left image is missing the torso picture)" [Tweet]. Twitter.
- ↑ (2007, January 20). "my charachter". From Roblox Library. Archived from the original on January 15 2025.
- ↑ (2007, January 22). "Phionx Riseing". From Roblox Library. Archived from the original on January 12 2025.
- ↑ https://www.roblox.com/library/30179/Toa-Zuku
- ↑ (2007, January 19). "Smiling Man". From Roblox Library. Archived from the original on January 15 2025.
- ↑ (2010, February 24). "Are92's Secret Files...". From Roblox Library. Archived from the original on January 15 2025.
- ↑ (2023, January 7). "Homestead Furniture Making Contest Avatars". From Roblox Library. Archived from the original on January 15 2025.
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